Blaming the Brain The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health

Name: Blaming the Brain The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health
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ISBN: 9780743237871

ISBN-10: 0743237870

ISBN-13: 9780743237871

Edition: 2002

Authors: Elliot Valenstein

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Over the last thirty years, there has been a radical shift in thinking about the causes of mental illness. The psychiatric establishment and the health care industry have shifted 180 degrees from blaming mother to blaming the brain as the source of mental disorders. Whereas experience and environment were long viewed as the root causes of most emotional problems, now it is common to believe that mental disturbances -- from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia -- are determined by brain chemistry. And many people have come to accept the broader notion that their very personalities are determined by brain chemistry as well.In his award-winning, meticulously researched, and elegantly…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Elliot S. Valenstein is emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan and the author of Blaming the Brain: The Truth about Drugs and Mental Healthand Great and Desperate Cures.